CVE-2017-17058 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The WooCommerce plugin through 3.x for WordPress has a Directory Traversal Vulnerability via a /wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/templates/emails/plain/ URI, which accesses a parent directory. NOTE: a software maintainer indicates that Directory Traversal is not possible because all of the template files have "if (!defined('ABSPATH')) {exit;}" code

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.42903.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:automattic:woocommerce:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Automattic Subscribe	Woocommerce Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/17964
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43196/
https://www.exploit-db.com/ghdb/4613/

History

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-29T07:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:43:59.424Z

Reserved: 2017-11-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17058

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:43:59.424Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-29T07:29:00.317

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-17058

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-22

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